{"id":20160,"date":"2025-10-26T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:02:11","slug":"drug-free-australia-submission-to-tga-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/10\/drug-free-australia-submission-to-tga-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Free Australia submission to TGA Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Transmitted by\u00a0Gary Christian &#8211;\u00a0President, Drug Free Australia &#8211;\u00a0September 18, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Attached is the Drug Free Australia submission to the TGA Consultation\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">re medicinal cannabis which is not only in\u00a0 Australian National interest but <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">also this is of concern\u00a0 worldwide. DFA hopes to bring the present\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">appropriateness of access via the Special Access Scheme (SAS) and Authorised <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Prescriber (AP) under control into the safety and regulatory oversight of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">unapproved medicinal cannabis products to protect Australia&#8217;s\u00a0 future\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">generations from harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">From DFA&#8217;s submission&#8217;s Executive Summary:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">This document addresses three of the TGA consultation questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Contraindications for medical cannabis &#8211; see Appendix A<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Claims for medical cannabis not supported by rigorous science &#8211; See Appendix B<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Lack of quality assurance in the production of medicinal cannabis &#8211; See\u00a0Appendix C<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">DFA recommendations are found on page 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>To access the full document:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click on the \u2018Source\u2019 link below.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>An image\u00a0 \u2013 the front page of the full document will appear.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click on the image to open the full document.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\">Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/10\/drug-free-australia-submission-to-tga-consultation\/tga-medicinal-cannabis-submission\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20161\">TGA Medicinal Cannabis submission<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transmitted by\u00a0Gary Christian &#8211;\u00a0President, Drug Free Australia &#8211;\u00a0September 18, 2025 Attached is the Drug Free Australia submission to the TGA Consultation\u00a0re medicinal cannabis which is not only in\u00a0 Australian National interest but also this is of concern\u00a0 worldwide. DFA hopes to bring the present\u00a0appropriateness of access via the Special Access Scheme (SAS) and Authorised Prescriber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,15,30,68,60,131,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-australia","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-marijuana-and-medicine","category-medicines","category-prevention-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}